Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg has left the house in hysterics after he brilliantly dismissed Nicola Sturgeon’s latest claims over the border and claimed the SNP have been trying to exploit lockdown to try and further their bid for independence.
The Leader of the House hit back at SNP MP Patrick Grady after he challenged Mr Rees-Mogg on his denial of a border between England and Scotland, but Mr Rees-Mogg was not having any of it.
Mr Rees-Mogg said: “Mr Speaker I never realised that our separatist friends revolved themselves on an Ealing comedy. It seems to have become Passport to Pimlico.
“There are no internal borders within the United Kingdom. It is one country, I am glad to say. And the fact there are – there is a difference between borders and between districts and areas.”
Mr Rees-Mogg continued: “This is self-evident. A border is something that you may stop people from crossing. Even I am not suggesting that we make people from Gloucestershire present their passports before coming into Somerset.
“Passport to Pimlico, the honourable gentleman will remember, was when Pimlico was thought to belong to the Duke of Burgundy or some such and therefore had become an independent state within the United Kingdom.
“Our separatist friend wants to do the same. And insist on passports to Scotland. And Mrs Sturgeon wishes to build a wall.
“Unfortunately Mrs Sturgeon’s policy isn’t fictional. Many of us with that it were, and the separatists were a bit more fictional but they’re not, they’re here and they bang on about it constantly.
“But we are still one country and Scotland benefits enormously from being part of the United Kingdom.”
Before entering the Commons, Mr Rees-Mogg had already criticised Sturgeon’s “shameful” remarks after SNP Commons business spokesman Tommy Sheppard said the Government is “led by someone who thinks the border does not exist”.
Mr Rees-Mogg replied: “He mentions borders, and I noticed that Nicola Sturgeon wishes to have a wall – perhaps she is modelling herself on other leading political figures – between England and Scotland.
“One never thought that Nicola Sturgeon would model herself on American political figures and want to build a wall – at least a metaphorical wall if not actually getting like Hadrian with the bricks and mortar.”
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